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- Video Drivers Notes
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- Virtual Pool has customized 3DVX video drivers for some video graphic
- chips. These drivers increase drawing performance. Not all chips have
- the required peformance, functionality, or programming information to
- support a 3DVX driver. We have written drivers for the most popular
- graphics chips that meet these requirements.
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- If you don't know what chip is on your video card, try using
- auto-detection in the config program.
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- If a chip specific driver does not work, try the VESA Planar Multi Page
- driver. If that does not work, use the VESA Linear Single Page driver.
- If all else fails, use the VGA driver.
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- Video memory requirements for drivers:
- 320x240 VGA driver 256 KB
- 640x480 3DVX chip specific drivers 1 MB
- 1024x768 3DVX chip specific drivers 2 MB
- 640x480 VESA Planar Multi Page 1 MB
- 1024x768 VESA Planar Multi Page 2 MB
- 640x480 VESA Single Page 512 KB
- 1024x768 VESA Single Page 1 MB
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- If there isn't a driver for your board, let us know by posting a message
- on the Interplay BBS. If we get a sufficient number of requests for a
- chip, we'll try to write a driver for it. ISA graphics boards will not
- be supported because they lack the necessary performance for Virtual Pool
- at high resolution.
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- There are hardware bugs in some early versions of the S3801/805 chipsets.
- You may see pixels reversed in columns on the screen. The accelerator
- may not work on some chips. There is no fix for these bugs.
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- The ET4000/W32 Accelerated Chipset will not work under WINDOWS. If you
- have a card with this chipset use the non-accelerated driver if you are
- running under Windows.
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- The movie player uses a VESA mode. If you can't play movies and get a
- message that the graphics mode can't be set, try installing a VESA
- driver for your board or an after market driver such as UNIVESA.
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